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For years, attorney and activist Heidi Boghosian has fought to protect American civil liberties as the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive bar association. Now as the

The internet is the last remaining instrument for dissent and free discourse to thrive outside state and oligarchical control. This campaign aims to put an end to that. It is completely unsurprising to learn, as Politico reported last Wednesday,...

Abandoning Afghans from the Start from Boston Review. Tactical critiques of the war's conduct are a distraction from U.S. imperialism.

9/11 has become the subject for numerous novels, films and television series. A number have effectively described the character of the events and their psychological impact, few have shed much light on their source and larger implications.

Amid recent revelations of the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain the communications records of reporters from CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, the new DOJ documents reveal the most complete picture yet assembled of a leak-hunting effort that dwarfs those of previous administrations. In the recently revealed cases, gag orders prevented news executives and tech companies from revealing the secret subpoenas. In May, President Joe Biden announced that he would not permit t...

Antiwar.com Original In early June 2021, the Biden Justice Department issued a new order prohibiting government officials from spying on or obtaining warrants to seize the records of journalists to identify sources who might be providing leaked classified information. White House press secretary Jen Psaski released a statement that "the issuing of subpoenas for the records of reporters in leak investigations is not consistent with the President’s policy direction to the Dep...

Daily Times July 20, 2021 The US government pledged Monday to steer clear of legal orders that force journalists to reveal their sources, with only rare exceptions, reversing course after revelations of secret efforts to obtain information from the media. A statement from the agency said it would no longer use the “compulsory legal process” including subpoenas or warrants to obtain records or identify sources from journalists involved in newsgathering activities. The new policy comes follow...

The Other Regional Counter-Revolution: Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East Iraqi security forces firing tear gas and live rounds into a crowd of demonstrators during the 2019 Tishreen (October) uprising The last decade has seen historic political upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa: a tsunami of popular uprisings that have brought down several dictators and led to momentous transformations in political consciousness, if not always to democratic out...

Jack Downing, Cold War spy who came out of retirement to help CIA, dies at 80 Harrison Smith Jack Downing, a renowned spymaster who became the only CIA officer to run and recruit agents in both Beijing and Moscow during the Cold War, then came out of retirement in 1997 to reinvigorate the agency’s demoralized clandestine branch, died June 27 at his home in Portland, Ore. He was 80. The cause was colon cancer, said his daughter, Wendy. Mr. Downing was the consummate fi...

Photo via Gage Skidmore Last night, Tucker Carlson aired a rather stunning allegation in his monologue. He said he had been in contact with someone inside the US government who has let him know that the US government was intercepting his electronic communications. It’s not just political protesters the government is spying on, yesterday, we heard from a whistleblower within the US government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic co...